Sunday, June 24, 2012

Ten songs I never want to hear again, but I know I will:

This is a
list of ten songs I never want to hear again, but I know I will:

In ascending order of irritation magnitude…

10. Any song Eric Clapton wrote for a dead
relative. He wrote “Tears from Heaven” for his son who was killed in a tragic
accident, and “My Father’s Eyes” for his father, who I heard he never met. Both
songs were so overplayed when they came out that I can’t listen to either
without wanting to stomp a radio to death with my bare feet.

9. Any song Elton John sings about a dead blonde.
“Candle in the wind” was for Monroe then Diana. Come on man, you’ve got more
number one hits than anyone else and you have to recycle one? Please.

8. “The Pina Colada Song (Escape)” by Rupert
Holmes. Back in the day this song was just left playing by radio stations day
and night because that’s the only song anyone wanted to hear. I can’t drink a
Pina Colada without wanting to throw up but there is no escape.

7. “Margaritaville” by
Jimmy Buffet. Some people say there’s a women to blame but I know it’s his own
damn fault. A person can’t go to Florida and drink without this song coming on
a juke box. I was sick of it two decades ago.

6. “Funky Town” by Lipps
Inc. This was a song I hated the first time I heard it. Someone remade it a few
years back and I hated it all over again. It’s just irritating, plain and
simple.

5. “Train” by Blacksnake.
This was one of those songs everyone loved so much some of us started to hate
it. Then one night a drunk I knew started singing it, and by the end of the evening
he puked out the car window and splattered me because I was in the backseat. I
hosed off in someone’s front yard and since then when I hear that song I smell
the puke of an idiot in the air.

4. “I Will Always Love You”
Whitney Houston. The video of this song fascinated me because Houston looks
like she’s sitting on a toilet having some sort of mouth spasm. But really, I
was with a male co-worker one day and he stopped to play this song full blast
and was explaining to my why this was his song for his ex-wife, even though she
had cheated on him, took his money, and left him with nothing. I thought it a
poor idea to sit with another guy and listen to that song loud enough for
people to hear it. Houston was a drunk, an addict, and had marginal talent. The
fact that she died right before the Emmys does not make her special.

3. “Staying Alive” by the
Bee Gees. This song marked a new low in music all over the world and in the
United States it marked the beginning of a very long dry spell where there wasn’t
an album worth using for target practice. If there was a song that is the
musical equivalent of the Nazi takeover of Europe, this is that song.

2. “Stairway to Heaven” by
Led Zeppelin. The lyrics are nonsensical. They do not mean anything special or
important, Satanic, magical or mystical. It’s a long, long, song that has been
played far too long. Stop it.

1.“Free Bird” by Lynyrd
Skynyrd. This is a song that is played over and over by rednecks like they’re
four year olds playing some Disney DVD incessantly. At bars, parties, outdoor
events, you name it, at some time some moron wearing a three wolves howling
tee-shirt draped over his belly is going to struggle to his feet, lift a butane
lighter to the heavens and scream, “Free Bird!” When the song was sold to the soul duo “Peaches
and Herb” some of the magic wore off a bit, but it is still the most overplayed
song in the South. It really wouldn’t be so bad except for those people who
seem to think “Free Bird” is like the national anthem or something. You may
love it, and everyone you know may love it, but there comes a time when you
just have to realize music did not stop in 1977.

3 comments:

Yeah, if you only listen to what’s on the radio and juke boxes, or what other people are playing, you’re at the mercy of popular taste and payola.However;“….it marked the beginning of a very long dry spell where there wasn’t an album worth using for target practice.”Nonsense, there was lot of great albums in ’77, but since Staying Alive came out in December I guess they don’t count. But ‘78/’79 there was a lot of fine music by Heart, Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, Charlie Daniels, Eagles, ZZ Top, etc. It’s up to you to play what you like, with cassettes, CDs, ipods, and flash sticks, the choice is yours.

We’ve discussed Whitney Houston before. Drunk and addict? Glass houses…I’m not a big fan of the songs she recorded, not my cup ‘o tea, but I, and many others, will argue all day long she had talent.

When most people listen to “oldies” they associate them with the people, places, times when they were current… good or bad. Getting puked on will diminish fond feelings.

Yours is the first negative comment I've gotten about Houston. I don't she had much talent but she was packaged very carefully until she started falling down on stage and slurring.

Glass houses? I never write drunk. And I can go weeks without drinking up to my three beer limit. And as far as cocaine...wow I would love to have that kind of money. I wouldn't do cocaine with it, but I would love to have that kind of money

Yes she was packaged, but that doesn’t negate the fact she had the voice most female singers would kill for. Her ability to melisma was unparalleled, and it’s reflected in the critical reviews, not to mention 170 million sales.You well know that the decisions we make, and the things we do, under the influence of alcohol / drugs, don’t always turn out to be good choices. I suspect many of us, given virtually unlimited money and plenty of time on our hands, wouldn’t be alive today.

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